A Muslim Convert Once Before

بِسۡمِ ٱللهِ ٱلرَّحۡمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ Quintus Septimius Florens Tertullianus said, “Indeed, for us, murder is forbidden once and for all, so it is not permitted even to destroy what is conceived in the womb.   To prohibit the birth of a child is only a faster way to murder; it makes little difference whether one destroys a life already born or prevents it from coming to birth.   It is a human being, who is to be a human being, for the whole fruit is already present in the seed.” As can be seen, the Christian position against abortion was from the earliest days of the Church.   It has since evolved, but has taken an ideological tone within the wider Church, and thus, lacks nuance.

بِسۡمِ ٱللهِ ٱلرَّحۡمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ Quintus Septimius Florens Tertullianus said, “Nothing that is unjust can be good, and everything that is just is bound to be good.”

بِسۡمِ ٱللهِ ٱلرَّحۡمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ Quintus Septimius Florens Tertullianus said, “It is certainly no part of religion to compel religion.”

بِسۡمِ ٱللهِ ٱلرَّحۡمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ   There is a reason why the birth of Christ ( a.s. ) is set on the 25 th December, and the Annunciation on the 25 th March.   This is based on the belief in the Integral doctrine, or the integral age.   Integralism is the belief, common in ancient Judaism, that prophets died on the same day that they were born, or the day they were conceived.   This has been carried over to Islam, in the birth and death of the Prophet Muhammad ( s.a.w. ).   Thus, the prophets were said to have lived entire years.   “Integral” is derived from the Latin “integer”, meaning “whole”.   It was the belief of many of the early Christian that Jesus ( a.s. ) was crucified on 25 th March.   Based on integralism, that would mean he was either conceived or born on the 25 th March.   The consensus then was that it was the conception, because that was what the angel Gabriel announced:   Luke 1:26-38 26 When the sixth m...

بِسۡمِ ٱللهِ ٱلرَّحۡمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ Every year, we have the same situation where some Muslim will say that Christians celebrating Christmas on the 25 th of December is wrong because it was the date of a pagan festival.  There are so many levels of idiocy in this statement.   Firstly, there will likely always have been some pagan festival on any one date.  Humanity has been around a long time.  When we consider the shift of dates as calendars adjusted to the movement of celestial bodies, dates actually becomes quite irrelevant.   Secondly, the festival of Saturnalia and the winter solstice was actually celebrated on the 21 st December, not the 25 th .   And finally, the 25 th of December was chosen because the early Church believed in the integral doctrine, that Jesus ( a.s. ) was conceived on the day he was crucified.  Taking its lead from Quintus Septimius Florens Tertullianus, they traditionally ascribed the date of the Crucifixion to t...